So the other day I approached a student about getting some information about the column I was working on. Stupidly, I mentioned that I was thinking about making it a negative column....this was before I had any information, other than what I had seen on posters around campus. Of course other students heard me say this, and it came back to the editor-in-chief. Damn. So she emails me saying I need to be careful when talking to sources and I should base my opinions on facts and I need to do this and that and blah, blah, blah, blah.

I understand that I shouldn't have said that I was going to write a negative column, but whatever. That's not the point. The point is, I've since changed my mind on the issue and my column will reflect that....but now it'll appear like I was pressured into changed my stance. That I let outside forces bully me into changing my words. I'm not going to change my mind again, because I have the column planned and it's obviously what I want to say....but still, I wish people would just wait until stories got printed before they get their panties in a bundle. Sheesh.